"UGS/Microsoft to Integrate PLM/ERP" – a Managing... -
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Published on: 7/6/2005
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The integration with Microsoft's mid-market enterprise resource planning (ERP) products is an expansion of a long-standing co-development and marketing partnership, noted Bill Boswell, senior director, Teamcenter product marketing at UGS."We have worked with [Microsoft] for years on the collaboration platform and on platforms, shared services, SQL server development and much more," Boswell said, in an interview."What we are talking about now is expanding the relationship and for the first time in the PLM market ... to integrate ERP and PLM."
Expansion of the current relationship is based on increasing customer demand that ERP and PLM work together to improve customers' abilities to access a complete set of information -- from bill of materials to financial data.The new offering will unite data from engineering with corporate ERP processes to streamline the flow of projects from engineering through to manufacturing.
The integration of Teamcenter and Great Plains "provides a common view as to how a company can operate its business," Boswell said.